Historical Events
1836 - Louis Napoleon banished to America
1954 - Lt Col John Stapp travels 632 mph in a rocket sled
1958 - WUFT TV channel 5 in Gainesville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Bertolt Brecht's play " The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" premieres in Stuttgart, West Germany
1983 - US Federal government shut down
1989 - Germans begin demolishing Berlin Wall
Famous Birthdays
1577 - Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], Dutch grand pensionary/poet (Houwelyck)
1759 - Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) (d. 1805)
1933 - Seymour Nurse, cricketer (prolific WI batsman, 258 v NZ 1969)
1937 - Albert Hall, Boothton Alabama, actor (Trouble in Mind, Ryan's 4)
1983 - Miranda Lambert, American singer
1985 - Giovonnie Samuels, American television actress
Famous Deaths
1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Republic of Turkey (b. 1881)
1948 - Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71
1968 - Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54
1996 - Beecher Moore, sailor, dies at 88
2006 - Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
2008 - Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932)
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